Al Schmitt on the Record

AL SCHMITT (Los Angeles) Still in very high demand, Al Schmitt has worked with the best and the brightest in the recording industry, including Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Usher and Dr. Dre, to name a few. He has recorded and mixed over 150 gold and platinum records and has gone on to receive 20+ Grammys and 2 Latin Grammys for engineering albums by such artists as Steely Dan, Toto, Natalie Cole, Quincy Jones, Diana Krall, Luis Miguel, Ray Charles, Chick Corea, DeeDee Bridgewater and Paul McCartney. Included on his long list of awards and recognitions, Schmitt was inducted into to the TEC Awards Hall of Fame in 1997 and he was awarded the NARAS Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2006. In 2015, Al received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in front of the Capitol Records building- the first engineer to be so honoured! MAUREEN DRONEY (Los Angeles) The Recording Academy's Managing Director/Producers and Engineers Wing, Maureen Droney, is a former recording engineer for artists including George Benson, Whitney Houston, Herbie Hancock, John Hiatt, and Carlos Santana. Prior to joining The Recording Academy, Droney oversaw the House of Blues Studios in Los Angeles and Memphis, and East Iris Studios in Nashville. She is the former Los Angeles Editor of Mix magazine, author of the textbook, MixMasters: Platinum Engineers Share Their Secrets for Success, and co-author of The Pensado Papers, about the rise of the audio industry web phenomenon, Pensado's Place,